Some of my favorite books in no special order:
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Martin Eden by Jack London
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
A Sense of Honor by James Webb
A Death in Kenya by: The Murder of Julie Ward by Michael Hiltzik
Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada
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